Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.
Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
Experience with shared platform services like Elastic and Redis.
Knowledge of Linux-based application hosting and networking fundamentals.
Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership for a multidisciplinary application team.
Translate mission priorities into actionable technical solutions.
Guide technical design and implementation while managing product priorities.
Collaborate with stakeholders to develop executable plans.
Balance security requirements and technical debt for platform stability.
Benefits
100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for employees and dependents.
401(k) with 8% total company contribution and immediate vesting.
Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO) and 11 paid floating holidays.
Flexible work schedules, including options for remote work.
Full Job Description
Requisition ID: 5535
Standard Title:
Required Security Clearance: Top Secret/SCI
Location: Bethesda, MD
Work Type: On-Site
Shift: First
Referral Eligibility: Eligible
U.S. Citizenship Required? Yes
Sign-On Bonus:
Position Summary
Base-2 Solutions is seeking a TS/SCI-cleared Platform Services Technical Lead to join a high-energy team deploying and maintaining common application-runtime capabilities in support of the DIA-NDOC (National Digital Exploitation and OSINT Center) DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP). This role is part of a 10-year program supporting the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) Modernization effort, where you'll contribute to mission-critical capabilities alongside a collaborative, innovative, and growth-oriented team. The role provides technical leadership, product direction, and ongoing execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities. You'll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate mission priorities and product roadmap requirements into actionable technical solutions and delivered capabilities. The majority of work is performed on-site at the customer location in Bethesda, MD, with a flexible schedule and occasional opportunities for remote work. Essential Duties and Responsibilities
As a Platform Services Technical Lead, you'll provide technical leadership, product direction, and ongoing execution for a multidisciplinary application team responsible for deploying and sustaining mission-critical application-runtime capabilities.
You'll work closely with the Lead Systems Engineer, Release Train Engineer, government stakeholders, and cross-functional engineering teams to translate mission priorities and product roadmap requirements into actionable technical solutions and delivered capabilities.
In this role, you'll guide technical design and implementation while managing product priorities, team execution, and delivery commitments.
You'll help balance new capabilities, operational sustainment, technical debt, and evolving mission requirements to ensure solutions are secure, scalable, reliable, and aligned with program objectives.
You will work closely with the team on the following key tasks:
Provide technical leadership and direction for the design, integration, deployment, and sustainment of NDOC's mission applications.
Collaborate with government stakeholders, Systems Engineers, and the Release Train Engineer to translate mission requirements and product roadmap priorities into executable development plans.
Own and prioritize the team backlog, decomposing features and requirements into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
Guide technical design and implementation decisions, ensuring solutions align with system architecture, engineering standards, security requirements, and mission objectives.
Lead technical discussions, evaluate solution alternatives, and help resolve complex engineering challenges across application, integration, and infrastructure components.
Balance security requirements, defect resolution, sustainment, and technical debt to maintain platform stability and support long-term system evolution.
Identify and manage technical risks, dependencies, and impediments, coordinating with engineering leadership and other teams to resolve issues affecting delivery.
Drive execution against Program Increment (PI) objectives and sprint commitments, maintaining visibility into progress, priorities, and delivery risks.
Lead or support Agile and SAFe activities, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews and demonstrations, retrospectives, and PI Planning.
Promote engineering best practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, performance and health monitoring, application security, and continuous process improvement.
Communicate technical progress, delivery status, risks, and recommended solutions to program management, government stakeholders, and engineering leadership.
Contribute to technical documentation, design reviews, and planning activities supporting current and future capabilities.
Required Qualifications
You're a technically strong, collaborative leader who can translate complex mission needs into practical engineering solutions while guiding a team toward successful delivery.
Experience meeting an applicable education and experience pathway in the equivalency section.
Strong hands-on experience administering and supporting Kubernetes in a production environment, including cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, configuration, namespace/tenant management, resource quotas, limits, and capacity planning, role-based access control (RBAC), and troubleshooting workload, networking, scheduling, performance, and availability issues.
Demonstrated experience operating shared platform services such as Elastic and Redis in production, including version management, configuration, scaling, monitoring, high availability, backup/recovery, and incident response.
Experience implementing and maintaining platform security and hardening practices, including least-privilege access, vulnerability remediation, secure configuration baselines, encryption, audit logging, and secrets management.
Experience with observability practices and tooling, including metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, alerting, SLOs/SLIs, capacity monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
Strong knowledge of Linux-based application hosting, containers, container images, networking fundamentals, DNS, TLS/certificates, and storage concepts.
Experience using infrastructure/platform automation and configuration management tools, such as Cloudformation, Helm, Salt, Ansible, or equivalent.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate platform risks, tradeoffs, capacity concerns, and investment needs for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
Experience serving as a Devops, Platform, or Shared Services Technical Lead, lead Systems Engineer, or similar role.
Experience working in an Agile program, especially SAFe Agile.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with AI algorithmically driven processing systems.
Cloud infrastructure experience.
Experience with Appian or other low-code software technologies.
Experience with any of the following technologies: PostgreSQL DevOps practices and tools including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools and practices, especially Gitlab or Jenkins Keycloak.
Hands-on development and/or scripting experience, especially Java, Python,.NET.
Experience interacting with or administering MSSQL Server databases or other relational databases.
Required Education and Experience Equivalency
BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or related field with 12 or more years of prior relevant experience.
Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.
Required Security Clearance
Active Top Secret/SCI
Must obtain a CI polygraph after start; Top Secret/SCI required to start.
U.S. citizenship is required
Pay & Benefit Highlights Compensation
Competitive fixed salary or hourly pay (based on experience, skills, location, and internal equity).
Employee referral bonuses up to $10,000 per hired referral.
Additional bonus opportunities for exceptional performance and contributions to business development and company growth (role-dependent).
Health
100% company-paid medical premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Choose from multiple plan options with CareFirst, Kaiser, and UnitedHealthcare, including PPO, POS, HMO, and HSA-compatible plans.
100% company-paid dental premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
100% company-paid vision premiums for employees and eligible dependents.
Income Protection
100% company-paid premiums for short-term disability.
100% company-paid premiums for long-term disability.
100% company-paid premiums for accidental death & dismemberment (AD&D).
100% company-paid premiums for life insurance up to $200,000.
Retirement
401(k) with immediate vesting: 4% company match plus a 4% non-elective company contribution (8% total).
401(k) pre-tax and Roth options.
Leave
Up to 20 days of flexible paid time off (PTO).
11 paid floating holidays.
Work-Life Balance
Flexible work schedules, including flex time and compressed work periods (contract and project-dependent).
